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Agriculture business news, including updates from farm machinery manufacturers, seed and chemical companies, and other agricultural services. Keep up to date on agribusiness with news and releases from across the agriculture industry.

This Monday, the history of corn and soybean markets will change. After being traded on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade for 124 years, the yelling and screaming to buy and sell ag commodities futures…

Minnesota-based cooperative Land O’Lakes and United Suppliers of Ames, Iowa, announced Tuesday that they plan to merge their crop inputs businesses. Under the agreement, the first step will be to combine…

A year ago at this time, Doug Applegate was beside himself dealing with the damage a massive storm inflicted on his family’s farm operation near Oakland, Iowa. “June 3 last year we got hit with a tornado…